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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

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Martin Rundkvist Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.

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May 31, 2008

Kirkwall, Orkney

Category: Travel

I'm in Kirkwall on the Orkney islands for a conference on maritime societies in the Viking and Medieval periods. It's a lovely sunny evening, which is apparently a rare and precious occurrence around these parts. The dialect is also something...

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May 30, 2008

Skamby Gaming Pieces on Display

Category: Archaeology

In 2005, a team led by myself and Howard Williams excavated a 9th century boat inhumation burial at Skamby in Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The finest finds we made in the grave were a collection of 23 amber gaming...

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May 29, 2008

Junior Meets the Astronaut

Category: Children

It was a good talk, ranging from abstruse physics to everyday practicalities of life in space.

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Sacred Imagery on Dish Rags

Category: Archaeology

I'd find it in pretty poor taste to make dish rags with the Crucifixion.

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May 27, 2008

Irrefutable Evidence: Cell Phone Alarmism Does Cause Harm

Category: Tech

An elderly gentleman saw his grand-daughter answer her phone while holding her newborn baby...

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May 26, 2008

Mesolithic Seal Hunters On a Hilltop Near You

Category: Archaeology

Amazing to find all this insanely old material in a tract of completely nondescript woodland.

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W00t! Phoenix Survived!

Category: Space

It has deployed its solar panels successfully and is transmitting pictures!

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May 24, 2008

Finnestorp War Booty Find in Offa

Category: Archaeology

Amazing finds from the Finnestorp war booty site.

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May 23, 2008

Birka Graves On-Line

Category: Archaeology

A massively useful research tool.

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May 22, 2008

Sing Gibberish to the Lord

Category: Humour

I've posted a fine example of Ansiktsburk song lyrics before: listen to a song in a language you don't understand, and try to imagine that it is actually sung in your own language though with a funny accent. Then...

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Skeptical Dirty Limerick Carnival

Category: Skepticism

Akusai of Action Skeptics has done something pretty ostentatious and very cool: he's written the latest Skeptics' Circle blog carnival entirely as a collection of dirty limericks!"An Irishman living with Swedes Speaks about bodily needs Eat and drink well So...

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May 21, 2008

Anthro Blog Carnival

Category: Archaeology

The forty-first Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Remote Central. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about Nswazwi. It's a village in the Central District of Botswana, located close to the border with Zimbabwe. The village has primary and...

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New Mircheva Photograph Subverts Beauty

Category: Art

My talented on-line buddy, Birmingham-based design student Tatyana Mircheva, has a new photo blog where she puts up some really interesting stuff. This series is a feminist commentary on the superficiality and narcissism of the beauty industry. The young...

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May 20, 2008

Local Newspaper Publishes Criticism of Bob Lind

Category: Archaeology

I wrote to complain, and was asked for a statement.

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Sacred Field of the Shining One

Category: Archaeology

Ullr is one of the old gods that were semi-forgotten in Snorri's day.

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May 19, 2008

Kickass Archaeological Sites Register On-Line

Category: Archaeology

With its extremely late urbanisation, Sweden doesn't have much of an archaeological record compared to Italy or China or Peru. But we keep really good track of the stuff we have: active organised surveying for ancient monuments has been...

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May 17, 2008

Skeptic's Guide Interview

Category: Skepticism

Getting up in the small hours on Thursday morning paid off: I'm on The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe #147!...

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Wikiblues

Category: NOIBN

I'm frustrated about Wikipedia. Cultists are slowly and surely readjusting the Falun Gong article to their own rosy and "oh-how-persecuted-we-are" perspective. The other day I watched some anonymous loon create a new user account for the single purpose of deleting...

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Liveblogging

Category: Tech

I'm at my son's end-of-term violin concert. Wonder if I can blog from the new smartphone w/o using email and a human intermediary? [Yay, I could! The Samsung for some reason comes with both IE and Opera preinstalled. Though Sb's...

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Four Stone Hearth Call for Submissions

Category: Blogging

Tim of Remote Central has kindly stepped in to host the upcoming 41st instalment of the Four Stone Hearth anthro & archaeo blogging carnival. Send links to good recent anthroblogging to him! It needn't be your own stuff: submit all...

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May 16, 2008

Tech Note: Samsung SGH-i780 Smartphone

Category: Tech

After some deliberation, I bought a Samsung SGH-i780 smartphone to replace my Qtek 9100. It has served me well for 2 1/4 years, but I felt it was time, and I've put it up for sale. I've only had the...

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May 15, 2008

Bits and Bobs

Category: Archaeology

Yesterday I did 5.5 more man-hours of metal detecting at the "Hall of Odin" site in Västmanland with Per Vikstrand. No prehistoric finds: just a piece of a 15/16/17th century brass cooking pot. Bob Lind's craziness is once more repeated...

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May 13, 2008

Aard Regular Makes Headlines Bashing Christian Right

Category: Skepticism

It's great to live in a country where run-of-the-mill Dominionist statements piss the right wing off most mightily.

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May 11, 2008

600 Hidden Plastic Jars

Category: Tree House Ruins

Logged my 600th geocache this bright May morning, took a picture of a treehouse ruin near the cache, then drove home listening to the Nashville Pussy. After lunch, me and the Rundkvist ladies took part in the annual street...

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May 10, 2008

My Kid's an Anglophone Spaceman

Category: Children

"People will breathe using space suits, and at home they will have air inside their houses."

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May 9, 2008

Viking Sword Found on the Isle of Man

Category: Archaeology

The island has not previously produced any Viking swords.

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May 8, 2008

Sunny Fieldwork in Uppland

Category: Archaeology

The St. Olaf site was perfect for metal detecting today, recently harrowed and almost completely without vegetation.

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May 7, 2008

Anthro Blog Carnival

Category: Archaeology

The fortieth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Remote Central. Archaeology and anthropology, and all relating to the Plzen Plaza! The Plzen Plaza is a new large (20,000 square meters) shopping mall and entertainment center in Plzeň,...

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May 6, 2008

Tobias Bondesson and the 333rd Coin

Category: Archaeology

As I flipped the plug of soil over, I wasn't greeted by a dull crumpled-up piece of scrap...

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May 5, 2008

Thou Shalt Always Kill

Category: Music

More good and witty UK rapping, this time a year-old hit from Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Thanks to Paddy K for the tip-off....

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Fresh Scandy Academic Archaeogossip

Category: Archaeology

According to the evaluation verdict, the job is likely to be given either to a 43-y-o theoretician or a 39-y-o Mayanist.

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May 3, 2008

Jeff Medkeff on Automated Optical Astronomy

Category: Space

They aren't looking for planet-sized objects anymore, they're down to bits of rock and ice a kilometer across.

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May 2, 2008

Nine-Year-Olds Like Roborally

Category: Gaming

Now and then I like to play board games: mostly Blokus, Drakborgen (a.k.a. Dungeonquest), Scrabble and Roborally. The latter is an award-winning 1994 game where each player programs a robot to move through a treacherous obstacle course and tag...

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May 1, 2008

Swedish Monastic Archaeology Boom

Category: Archaeology

A conference on monastic archaeology takes place at Vretakloster 4-5 September.

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